Blazingcatfur

The Failed Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt: A Tale of Two Harrys

Duped by Soviets both inside and outside his administration.

In this third installment of a revisionist look back at the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the focus is on communist infiltration of FDR’s administration both before and during World War II and its impact on American foreign policy. In particular, this is the tale of the two Harrys: Harry Dexter White and Harry Hopkins. White was by most accounts a conscious agent of the Soviet Union (though never a Communist Party member) who as a key Treasury Department official influenced U.S. policy to favor Soviet objectives and provided classified information to his Soviet handlers. Hopkins was at best a dupe or “useful idiot,” and at worst a pro-Soviet agent of influence, who was President Roosevelt’s closest adviser during the war. The two Harrys, along with numerous other Soviet agents of influence in a plethora of New Deal and wartime agencies, in James Burnham’s words, “assembled in Washington under the careless scepter of Franklin Roosevelt.”

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•history

Canada’s Dicey Plan to Build a Munitions Factory in Ukraine

Apparently Canada has a solution to the Ukraine crisis after all. Unfortunately it involves being somewhere else when the trigger, to torture a phrase from Orwell, isn’t pulled. Which won’t save our ally or our credibility.

Back in 1994, as it fled the squalid wreckage of the Soviet Union, various nations promised that if Ukraine gave up the nuclear weapons it inherited, they would ensure that it was never devoured by Russian revanchists. With Russia looking mostly harmless, it seemed like resolve on the cheap. But then along came Vladimir Putin with his characteristically parochial belief that the collapse of the USSR was “the greatest geopolitical disaster in history.” So now what?

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•Russia, Ukraine

Hollywood’s New Rules The old boys club is dead. But a new one—with its own litmus tests and landmines—is rapidly replacing it.

‘This is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.’

A few years ago, the editor-in-chief of The Hollywood Reporter pitched a story to the newsroom. He had just come back from lunch with a well-known agent, who had suggested the paper take a look at the unintended consequences of Hollywood’s efforts to diversify. Those white men who had spent decades writing scripts—which had been turned into blockbuster movies and hit television shows—were no longer getting hired.

The newsroom blew up. The reporters, especially the younger ones, mocked the idea that white men were on the outs. The editor-in-chief, normally self-assured, immediately backtracked. He looked rattled.

h/t RF

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"Peak Woke", Hollywood

Trudeau tells kids to pester parents for Jab

More children in Canada need to get their COVID-19 jabs, Trudeau says

“Almost half of kids across this country have gotten their vaccine. … We need to get more, so please ask your parents if you can get vaccinated,” Trudeau said, addressing children directly during a regular briefing.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Justin Trudeau - Pissant

Maybe some statues should be cancelled…

Man arrested after allegedly damaging statue outside BBC Broadcasting House

… The sculptor, Eric Gill, was one of the most prominent early 20th-century British artists and designers until his death in 1940. But his diaries, published many decades later, revealed his sexual abuse of his daughters and family dog.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•WTF?

Something that will never happen in Canada…

French Mosque is shut down for supporting Islamist groups and anti-Semitism – two weeks after another was ordered to close for inciting hatred

Mosques are not monitored in Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Rex Murphy: Trudeau’s vilification of ‘anti-vaxxers’ paved the way for Legault’s punishment tax

It is not, nor ever will be, rightly called a health tax. It’s a punishment tax. A punishment tax for exercising adult judgment on your own health. Who owns universal health care? Is it the citizens who fund it, or the politicians and bureaucrats who think they are in charge of it? Who, in Quebec and elsewhere, are now using as a bludgeon what was supposed to be a universal solace.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"China eats weird animals disease", Justin Trudeau - Pissant

WTF?

Mental health crisis pic.twitter.com/NjZMnBIFwa

— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) January 12, 2022

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•WTF?

‘Killer Zionist dolphins’ claim gets attention in Israel

Palestinian militant group Hamas has claimed to have apprehended a Mossad-trained ‘killer dolphin’ spy wearing specialized combat gear that allegedly attacked one of its naval combat units off the Gaza coast.

A video posted by the armed outfit to announce the apparent capture was widely shared on social media on Tuesday. During the 25-second clip, a spokesperson from the Al-Qassam brigades, identified as Abu Hamza, said its ‘frogman unit’ had discovered and trapped the aquatic assassin during an operation.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•Batshit Crazy "Anti-Zionists", WTF?

Smash-and-Grab Retail Rising store crime now plagues many communities

When police busted a shoplifting ring operating out of a liquor store last spring, they calculated that the dozen or so people involved had swiped at least $375,000 worth of goods from retailers such as Walmart, Lowe’s, and Walgreens. The pair heading the ring relied on small-time thieves, including several with drug arrest records, to launch brazen “grab-and-go” operations in which they snatched expensive goods and then raced out of stores and fled in cars with phony license plates. Though police and prosecutors often categorize shoplifting as a nonviolent crime, the gang’s sprees resulted in several physical confrontations, including one in which a gang member assaulted a store employee with a stun gun. This may sound similar to the organized smash-and-grab lootings that have plagued high-end retailers in San Francisco and other Northern California communities recently, but this gang was operating out of Daytona Beach, Florida—and had done so for nearly two years.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•Crime

Taliban Defense Minister Threatens to Put 2,000 Jihad Suicide Bombers at Afghan Embassy in DC

The Taliban’s defense minister, Maulvi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, recently responded to news that the U.S. plans to station 2,000 troops at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul by presenting what he considered to be a tit-for-tat: according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), the austere diplomat tweeted: “If America wants 2,000 English [i.e., American] troops at its embassy in Afghanistan, we also want 2,000 Fidayeen Mujahideen [i.e., suicide bombers] from the Fateh Force at the embassy of Afghanistan in America.” Two-thousand suicide bombers in Washington! It’ll almost be like Congress, but bigger.

by Blazingcatfur•January 12, 2022January 12, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Afghanistan, Islam, Islam and violence, USA

Biden’s Budget Priorities and the China Threat

… There is nothing [in the US budget] specifically targeting and countering the Chinese biowarfare threat and resultant global pandemic that has seized the world for nearly two years. Nothing. Instead, there is specific reference to military crisis communications – the sort Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley clearly exercised on October 20, 2020 when he told the Chinese military chief: “General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.” General Milley has yet to be indicted.